In terms of opening scenes,Baltasar Kormákur’s true-story survivalist drama opens with a doozy: A young woman, bloodied and barely conscious, suddenly jolts awake. She’s below deck in a boat, which is filling up with water fast; you can hear the vessel creaking and groaning ominously all around her. A wave …
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What we have here is a Latin-infused remake of the 1987 romcom that starred Goldie Hawn as a bitchy heiress who take a spill off her yacht, suffers amnesia and falls for a poor carpenter (Kurt Russell) and his three kids. Who better than Anna Faris to take on the …
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Reynolds Woodcock, the 1950s-era British fashion titan played by the astounding Daniel Day Lewis in what he cruelly insists is his final film role, likes secrets. Specifically, he likes to sew them into his clothes, notes to himself in the lining of a garment that mark his art as indelibly …
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